Closing the Wage Gap
Read more about efforts to reverse income inequality.
Florida airline workers demand living wages and benefits
By: Gabriella Paul | WUSF Public Media | Aug 4, 2022 Around 90% of airport-contracted employees report having zero days of paid sick leave, according to a union survey. (Read More)
Long Beach moves to increase healthcare worker wages to $25 an hour
By: Emma Dimaggio | Signal Tribune | Aug 3, 2022 The Long Beach City Council voted Tuesday to draft an ordinance that would increase healthcare worker wages to $25 an hour rather than send the item to the ballot. The ordinance, which will come back to the council for approval next Tuesday, Aug. 9, would
ACC approves budget giving all employees raises, establishes $20 minimum wage
By: Megan Menchaca | Austin American-Statesman | Aug 2, 2022 The Austin Community College Board of Trustees approved the college’s annual budget for the next fiscal year on Monday, a plan that will provide all ACC employees with a raise and establish a $20 minimum wage. (Read More)
Hospitals seek repeal of $25 hourly healthcare worker minimum wage in Los Angeles
By: Kelly Gooch | Becker’s Hospital Review | August 1, 2022 A union is pushing back amid a campaign by hospitals to repeal an ordinance recently signed by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti that establishes a $25 minimum hourly wage for workers at eligible privately owned healthcare facilities in the city. The No on the Los Angeles Unequal Pay
State court delays minimum wage increase after previously allowing it to go ahead
By: Colin Jackson | WKAR Public Media | Jul 31, 2022 Michigan residents will have to wait to see a raise in the minimum wage following a court order Friday. A state Court of Claims ruling last week restored a law that lays out a schedule for increasing Michigan’s minimum wage, but Friday’s ruling delays
Bill to enshrine gig work into federal labor law ‘would effectively get rid of the minimum wage and overtime compensation’
By Levi Sumagaysay | Jul 30, 2022 Bill introduced in House would establish a new category of labor law for app-based gig workers, offering some employment protections but no wage and hour protections A bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives would amend U.S. labor law to establish a new classification for gig workers,